Associate Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Scientist interested in microbiome in cancer and women’s health. Thoughts are my own.

Winston-Salem, NC
Ellie started her research journey during her undergrad days in my lab for a R25 NIH funded research experience, and graduated today with her Master’s degree! #ProudPI @WakeCancer
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Cook lab representing at @wakeforestmed Surgical Science Research Day! Congratulations Mohamed for his gold medal 🥇 and Alana for her silver medal 🥈 poster in postdoctoral fellow category!
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Heading to Philly to talk about our @WakeCancer @wakeforestmed group’s work on #microbiome and #breastcancer at #IO25
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6th time is the charm! Happy to share that this re-re-resubmitted R01 on understanding the impact of microbial-derived metabolites on obesity-mediated #breastcancer received a 3%!!!!!! @WakeCancer @wakeforestmed
Unfortunately close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades….until next time NIH
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Congratulations Dr. Clear! Lovely day for the PhD hooding ceremony @wakeforestmed @WakeIPP @WakeCancer
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Replying to @JacobAllenPhD
Congratulations!

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Unplugged from work and enjoying the moment. Absolutely breathtaking scenery and whale sightings in Glacier Bay and Icy Straight AK.
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@AACR #AACR25 amazing session on immunometabolism and metabolic fitness. Obesity and weight loss influences on immune reprogramming in cancer. @JeffRathmell
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Heading to #AACR25…Come check out the Cook Lab presentations! Dr. Gaber and Dr. Arnone @AACR postdoctoral fellow will be presenting work on #microbiome and #breastcancer. @wakeforestmed @WakeCancer
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Congratulations Dr. Kenysha Clear! She did a fantastic job presenting her dissertation work on #breastcancer #microbiome and #immunotherapy @WakeIPP @wakeforestmed @WakeCancer
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Zip representing the Cook Lab at @wakeforestmed @WakeIPP at Graduate Student Research Day. Doing an amazing job talking about her project on #BreastCancer #CardioOncology
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Honored to be recognized tomorrow as @WFCTSI @wakeforestmed 2024 Research Award in Mid-Career Basic/Translational category. Congrats to all the winners this year @JaredWeis @KadakiaKunal @birkensarah @SalemGIOncDoc @asouth_neph @HKlepinMD
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Happy to share my recent @AACR TME interest group interview #Microbiome #BreastCancer @WakeCancer @wakeforestmed
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It’s amazing what you can do with glass #ChihulyatBiltmore
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Merry Christmas and happy holidays y’all.
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Kicking @AACR @SABCSSanAntonio #SABCS2024 off with a fantastic session on #Obesity #BreastCancer risk with Dr. Fabian and Dr. @Neil_Iyengar
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The best part of running #microbiome clinical trials are the amazing patients! Their sense of humor is on point…Got this gem with a fecal sample in the mail. Thank you to all those participating. @WakeCancer @KatherineAnsley
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@WakeRedox annual retreat has a great line-up of speakers showing breathe and depth of redox biology research @wakeforestmed @LesliePoolePhD @oncoscientist @rejoicePhD @dhtomar @jadiya_pooja @FurduiRedoxLab
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Congratulations to Terry @WakeMCB in @oncoscientist lab for 🥈and Kenysha @WakeIPP in my lab for 🥉place awards for graduate student presentations at @WakeSurgEd Surgical Science Research Day. Mohamed in my lab also won 🥉in the fellow category! @wakeforestmed
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Heading over to @USouthFlorida @usfmcomgrad for the 2024 Louise Mary Nicosia Lecture. Excited to talk about some of our @WakeCancer @wakeforestmed work on #BreastCancer and #Microbiome
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Lovely time catching up with Dr. McQuade @mcquadeMDLAc from @MDAndersonNews for Grand Rounds this week @WakeCancer @wakeforestmed @KridelSteven @oncoscientist
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Replying to @AshaniTW
I can’t even….

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Unfortunately close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades….until next time NIH
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Congratulations!

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Thank you to the meeting organizers @costas_koumenis @swr_sws for the invitation to talk about our group’s @wakeforestmed @WakeCancer work on #microbiome and #BreastCancer @tmcs_2024 Great science, good food, and a beautiful location in Cyprus. See you next time!
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@Hammond_Lab what did you say this was again? @tmcs_2024 is a great conference!
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Excited to get @tmcs_2024 started in beautiful Cyprus! @swr_sws @oncoscientist @costas_koumenis @ACKoongMDPhD
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Hats off to Zip @WakeIPP @WFUbiomedgrad @WakeRedox T32 fellow for presenting her poster on endocrine therapy + cdk4/6 inhibitor cardiotoxicity study at #GCOS24 @ICOSociety @wakeforestmed
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@MargaretAxelrod gave a great talk at GCOS meeting on potential biomarkers for #immunotherapy #CardioOncology myocarditis @ICOSociety.
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Left my office cave and got back into the lab…nice to know I haven’t completely lost my bench hands.
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La isla bonita. 🇵🇷 ☀️ 🏖️
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Great job Debra (our undergraduate summer intern from @ncatsuaggies) on her poster looking at tissue specific MAMP and #BreastCancer as part of the @NCIResearchCtr R25 summer program at @wakeforestmed Mentored by postdoc Dr. Gaber.
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Ellie @WSSURAMS undergraduate #EICS summer student @wakeforestmed @WakeCancer did a great job at her poster on her project investigating #breastcancer #CardioOncology and #microbiome
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And just like that, the summer program is wrapping up! Thank you to our amazing undergrad summer students Debra, Ellie, and Ashely. @wakeforestmed @WakeCancer
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Let’s go Canada! Cheering on our northern neighbors #CopaAmèrica @oncoscientist
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Replying to @az1980micro
Congratulations!

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Yey! Congratulations! 🍾

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Replying to @erindgiles
Yey! Congratulations lady!

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DOD: submitted✅ V foundation: submitted ✅ R01: next week I need a nap…

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Another successfully completed half marathon with running buddy extraordinaire @BethanyKerrLab Greenville, SC Mountains to Main Street!
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#Summerlark @AtriumHealthWFB @WakeCancer raising funds for our cancer patient support program and our #NCI designated CCC. @oncoscientist @barenakedladies @mpdrc
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Northern lights in Winston-Salem, NC!
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It’s that time of the year again. Getting fancy for a good cause…and it’s 1920’s theme! @American_Heart #TriadHeartBall @oncoscientist
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Woohooo! Congratulations!

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Congratulations Dr. Mohamed Gaber on successfully defending your PhD thesis! @wakeforestmed @WakeCancer @WakeMCB
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Congratulations Dr. Arnone @alana_arnone @WakeIPP @WakeCancer @wakeforestmed for successfully defending your PhD thesis!
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